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Thu Jan 14 06:00:01 EST 2021 ======================================== Slept from eleven to six. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. Southeast winds up to 15 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- Started working a little early. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Mostly sunny. Home ---------------------------------------- - Grocery delivery 5–7 PM Done. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared-mauch-didnt-have-good-broadband-so-he-built-his-own-fiber-isp/ > But about four years ago, Mauch started planning to build his own provider that now offers fiber-to-the-home broadband in parts of Scio Township and Lima Township. Mauch has installed five miles of fiber so far and began hooking up his first customers a few months ago. As of early January, Mauch told us he had connected 30 homes and had about 10 more homes to wire up. He initially figured he'd get about 35 percent of potential customers to buy service, but it's been about 70 percent in reality. The customers that Mauch has not yet hooked up are generally relying on cellular service, he said. Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC > The name of Mauch's company is Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC, and it's registered as a competitive access provider with the Michigan state government. While technically a phone company, Mauch provides only Internet service without any phone or TV offerings. > "My tariff is really funny," Mauch said, explaining that the document he was required to file with the state explains that his company provides services only on an individual, case-by-case basis. > Mauch said he has spent about $145,000, of which $95,000 went to the contractor that installed most of the fiber conduits. The fiber lines are generally about six feet underground and in some cases 10 or 20 feet underground to avoid gas pipes and other obstacles. Probably, I've linked this before, but. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyashikei https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Iyashikei > Iyashikei (癒し系) is Japanese for "healing", a term used for anime and manga created with the specific purpose of having a healing or soothing effect on the audience. Works of this kind often involve alternative realities with little to no conflict, emphasizing nature, the mundane and the little delights in life. If anybody talks about a "Moe" genre about cute girls doing cute things, it may very likely be in this genre. > Even though many iyashikei creations seem to have a strong escapist basis, the goal is not only to offer a means of getting away from daily worries, but to let the audience embrace a calming state of mind by using familiarity and simplicity, and appealing to fundamentally positive emotions. As these works tend to involve normal people in normal situations, this trope often overlaps with Slice of Life. Other tropes often associated with iyashikei are Arcadia, Ghibli Hills and Scenery Porn. > Iyashikei often involves the subtler kind of Heartwarming Moment and sometimes has Romance overtones. Compare and contrast Warm and Fuzzy Feeling, Tastes Like Diabetes, Sweet Dreams Fuel, and Happiness Tropes. Contrast Utsuge (the closest genre to its diametric opposite in Japanese media), Glurge, Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel. Works adhering to this trope might function as Real Life Brain Bleach. See also Escapism for a very similar concept. https://kottke.org/21/01/sisters-with-transistors > Sisters with Transistors (great title!) is a documentary film by Lisa Rovner about the overlooked female pioneers of electronic music. > > > The history of women has been a history of silence. > > > > As one of the film’s subjects, Laurie Spiegel explains: “We women were especially drawn to electronic music when the possibility of a woman composing was in itself controversial. Electronics let us make music that could be heard by others without having to be taken seriously by the male dominated Establishment.” > > The film’s subjects, which you can read about here, include Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. Oram, for example, was one of the founding members of BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop: > > With many of her country’s men serving in the second World War, she began her career in radio broadcasting in the early ’40s. Galvanized by the ongoing developments in audio technology, she devoted much of her free time to exploring new ways to make sounds with electronics. One of the founding figures of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, she was one of the earliest British composers to produce electronic sounds and compose from field recordings — Musique Concrete, the ancestry of today’s electronic music. https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/towards-a-solarpunk-future https://medium.com/solarpunks/on-the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk-c5a7b4bf8df4 > You’ve heard of the hacker slogan “move fast and break things”? Solarpunk should move quietly and plant things. Don’t ask permission from a state beholden to oligarchs, and definitely don’t expect those oligarchs to do any of this for you. Guerilla gardening is the model, but look further. Guerilla solar panel installation. Guerilla water treatment facility restoration. Guerilla magnificent temple to the human spirit construction. Guerilla carbon sequestration megastructure creation. https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-4 > If Cyberpunk rebelled against post-war optimism, Solarpunk rebels against today’s structural pessimism. Only around since 2015, Solarpunk creates bright, beautiful worlds with rich atmospheres. Solarpunk’s aesthetic draws inspiration from Art Nouveau and artists like Imperial Boy (above) and Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki. If Hayao Miyazaki’s Future Boy Conan is Solarpunk’s Alphaville, Beasts of The Southern Wild is Solarpunk’s Shockwave Rider. https://scuttlebutt.nz/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/01/despite-covid-19-lockdowns-american-roads-are-getting-much-deadlier/ > Things got much, much worse during the months between July and September, with deaths rising by a massive 13.3 percent. The primary culprit? Emptier roads, encouraging drivers to speed. Throughout 2020, multiple states have reported big increases in speeding tickets, and particularly those issued to drivers going 25mph (40km/h) or more above the speed limit. To make matters worse, it seems that more of the drivers getting into crashes are found with drugs or alcohol in their system, and fewer have been wearing seatbelts. Chatted a bit with Jay and Ed on Signal. Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 4/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, coffee, taco with avocado and egg Lunch: potato, sausage Afternoon snack: potato chips Dinner: soap, bread

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